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Old Aug 23, 2010 | 8:53 am
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Originally Posted by star_world
I am completely opposed to using any program that requires itself to be continually running in the background for AV / security. I haven't run any in at least 5 years and have never once found anything even remotely suspicious on any Windows PC I run.
Which is quite different from not having a nice collection of nasty stuff on the hard drive, of course

But you have a point in the fact that you COULD have a nice collection of nasty malware even with a continuously running AV.
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